11:11 The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you,2 he will drive you out completely3 from this place. 11:2 Instruct4 the people that each man is to request5 from his neighbor, and each woman from her neighbor,6 items of silver and gold.”7
11:3 (Now the Lord granted the people favor with8 the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people.)9
11:4 Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight10 I will go throughout Egypt,11 11:5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh12 who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. 11:6 There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been,13 nor ever will be again.14 11:7 But against any of the Israelites not even a dog will bark15 against either people or animals,16 so that you may know that the Lord distinguishes17 between Egypt and Israel.’ 11:8 All these your servants will come down to me and bow down18 to me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow19 you,’ and after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in great anger.
11:9 The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders20 may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
11:10 So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.
The Institution of the Passover